Arts
Moor pride
Moor pride
Irish tale
Irish tale
Horses for courses
Horses for courses
Who dares wins
Who dares wins
Master of invention
The very fact that this exhibition’s subtitle has to explain who Nicholson is stands as a blatant admission of his…
Last pearl
In the official account of British 20th-century art, the big names belong to the international players whose universal vision won…
Virtuous living
Penguin Classics uses details from the landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich to illustrate the covers of some of its Nietzsche…
Problem piece
Like many artists, Puccini seems happiest when creating beings whom he can proceed to subject to torture, while encouraging compassion…
Behaving badly
There has never been a film of The Merchant of Venice before. This is not surprising. Different Shakespeare plays give…
Glinka tribute
Glinka tribute
Clash of egos
Clash of egos
On the trail of Beauty
In desolate Ventnor on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, alongside ‘antique’ shops selling yellowed and scratched plastic…
Degas Revealed
Once upon a time, before masterpieces cost millions, a museum director could win a modicum of immortality just with his…
Rough stuff
The red spot for ‘Sold’ has appeared beside most of Julian Cooper’s mountain paintings at the Art Space Gallery. ‘I’ve…
The balloon goes up
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan has the most memorable opening of any modern novel. This might be thought to be…
Magical touch
Mark Morris’s The Hard Nut occupies a special place in the history of ‘alternative’ versions of The Nutcracker. Created in…
Museum without a soul
Roger Kimball on how Yoshio Taniguchi has transformed New York’s Museum of Modern Art
On the trail of Herzog
On the trail of Herzog
The great divide
The great divide
Light entertainment
If you were looking for someone to blame for the explosion of multi-disciplinarity in contemporary art, L
Poetic eye
It is not Robert Frank’s fault, but one might think from the hype — ‘arguably the world’s greatest living photographer’,…
Weirdness in Washington
They don’t make ’em like The Manchurian Candidate of 1962 any more. That weird, creepy, paranoid thriller of the Cold…
Botched effort
ENO’s Siegfried is not a disaster, but the margin isn’t as large as one might wish. Seeing it hot on…
True courage
True courage
Genteel ghetto
Genteel ghetto
